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  1. "But how can you develop a website without a framework?"

    My brother in binary, I was developing websites before CSS or JavaScript even existed.

    Now go play with your shiny baubles.

    #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtCloud #web #development #WebDeveloper #CSS #JavaScript #framework #website #websites

  2. Serious request:

    Stop assuming that users have Internet access!

    #OldManYellsAtCloud
  3. In Old Man Yells at Cloud News: I believe manga girl images are incel culture.
    #oldmanyellsatcloud

  4. It should be illegal for user interfaces to engage with users on a personal level, per se. I’m serious.
    At least, they should disclose very clearly that they're actively messing with your dopamine system while doing it.
    #ui #ai #oldManYellsAtCloud

  5. I love the panic in the #Canadian news, "85% of the cloud computing market is occupied by 3 big #USAnian companies! We must build our own cloud to keep Canadians' personal and private data in Canada!"

    Brother, what would you say if I told you there's another way to ensure no Canadian's data ends up on #computers belonging to a big American company?

    #cloud #computing #OldManYellsAtCloud #ownership #infrastructure #DataSecurity #DataPrivacy #Canada

  6. So my local Board of Elections was kind enough to send me a postcard informing me that there were no non-partisan elections coming up next month for the primary, and therefore I wouldn't need to come to the polls, as I can't vote in them.

    In other words, I'm in a closed primary state, where only the Democrats vote for their ilk, the Fasc^H^H^H^HRepublicans vote for theirs, and the winners of each go on to meet each other in the General in November. In other words, the playoffs, but for politics.

    Which is how it should be, really, if parties are to mean anything. Of course, I do not vote like seemingly everyone else around me votes - they treat it like it's Survivor, apparently - so several states have, to my feelings, weirder ways of doing it. As an example, I think California has something called the "jungle primary" where literally everyone gets on the same ballot and they take the top two for a runoff, which is so mindbogglingly stupid that the person responsible should be beaten with a stick.

    Of course, I also know about election methods, and wish that we could have Mixed Member Proportional for the legislature and maybe a Condorcet for single member seats (I'd accept AV or STV), but I'm in such a vanishingly small minority in that respect - as I discovered during my political career - that I soon realized that staying quiet about things was for the best. (I'm certainly not going to join up with the Republican or Democratic Parties for what should be obvious reasons.)

    Side note: There's also Delegative, or "Liquid" Democracy, which I really find innovative, and we have the technology to pull it off, but again, we'd need to come to some sort of understanding about what #democracy is actually designed to do, and considering we're still having the "debate" about the Electoral Fucking College, I have no illusions of anything guided by a modicum of reason penetrating into the public consciousness in the foreseeable future.

    #uspol #USElections #PrimaryElections #VotingMethods #cynicism #blathering #OldManYellsAtCloud
  7. @wyatt FF7 scenes with Bugenhagen are "cries of the planet" to some and "old man yells at Cloud" to others. That and he looks kind of like a Weeble

    #FF7 #FFVII #OldManYellsAtCloud #Bugenhagen #Weebles

  8. I hate the modern internet. Trying to get the weight of a Tesla battery a website tells me this:
    "The battery for the Model S weighs 1,200 lbs. The Model S also has the longest range out of all Tesla’s cars, which is why it has such a heavy battery. The Model 3 has a battery weight of 1,060 lbs. The Model X has a battery weighing 1,183 lbs. Model Y has a battery that weighs 1,700 lbs."
    The Y is the same as the 3 and the S is the same as the X. The S/X is heavier than the 3/Y by a lot. So this is complete bullshit.
    #AISlop
    #OldManYellsAtCloud
    #Collapse

  9. @EvenRouault Back then when you turned on the TV you didn't have to stare at the manufacturer's logo for a good 15 seconds.

    #OldManYellsAtCloud

  10. RE: infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/116

    This level of hijack is really annoying.
    Clean up your detritus, Big Networking!
    Route ALL of your space!
    Don’t keep unneeded ASNs around "just in case we need another one."
    AND FILTER YOUR PEERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!
    #OldManYellsAtCloud
    #InfoSec
    #IPHijack

  11. CW: Potentially suggestive and rude comment about Olympics tickets by toot poster

    @ai6yr the grift that keeps on grifting: here in Santiago, Hoyts Cinemas has a per ticket service fee for internet sales. Per ticket.

    It’s cheaper to buy tickets at the cinema (!)

    #oldmanyellsatcloud #niceDreams Biden would have eliminated those!

  12. I also don't like that everything became all about pull requests instead of commits. Nobody reads the commit messages these days. They might as well not be there.

    If I wrote all my commit messages at work by rolling my face across the keyboard, not one person would notice.

    #OldManYellsAtCloud #GetOffMyLawn

  13. When the hell did "could have seen Star Wars in the theater" become a description of someone being old?

    #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtCloud #StarWars

  14. Now, could I use another router to isolate IoT devices from the internet? Sure. And if I were still in my mid-twenties I’d probably screw with that. But I am nearly 47 and don’t have time for that shit.

    More importantly, though… in a just world we wouldn’t have to. I know, “just world fallacy” and all that, but we should have a world where WE can choose how smart devices connect to the outside world. Of course, the profit motive made sure that was never going to happen.

    And it’s just sad. And it’s one reason why my disillusionment and burnout around tech is near-total at this point in my life.

    #iot #enshittification #oldManYellsAtCloud

  15. So I have this recently-bought router from TP-Link which replaced an old Asus router that wasn’t cutting it anymore. Anyways, it has the ability to create a separate “IoT Network” for connected appliances/devices.

    But it isn’t a separate network. It’s just another SSID with potentially weaker security. Devices can still access both the internet and your local machines. It is totally useless security theater.

    Oh, and if I want to isolate any of my “smart” devices from the wider internet while still letting things on the LAN connect to them? I can’t! There is literally no way to do this within the router, except via a really hacky workaround where I add a device as one of my “children” and then use parental controls to restrict Internet usage to one minute per day. (Zero minutes per day is not allowed.)

    Not that it matters, because my smart TV locked up if on a network but not on the internet. So I lobotomized it via factory reset. As a dumb TV it works great.

    #iot #enshittification #oldManYellsAtCloud

  16. I kinda want to create a blog series that explains the stuff we were never taught, or were so academic it was unappealing. Like Money, Faith, Race, Politics, geopolitics, persuasion, etc from an objective non magical thinking perspective. Like a tl;dr for life.

    #random #oldmanyellsatcloud #midlife

  17. I am feeling about as useless as a man can feel right now. I'm going out in fifteen minute intervals trying to chip my car out - and it's "chip", not "shovel". I'm just literally bludgeoning the ice with my shovel and scooping up the bits I chip off. I'm only doing a bit at a time so I don't end up in the hospital, and in the meantime the cold I had last week has boomeranged and now after breathing in all the cold air out there, my throat is sore and my voice has gotten hoarse again.

    I need to go across town and get my other wife's car out as well [ #PolyProblems ] And I have an online show tonight and a show tomorrow and on Thursday, all of which will require me being able to speak.

    Good morning, blue Tuesday. #grouse #kvetch #OldManYellsAtCloud
  18. @Migueldeicaza My dietitian says to go easy on the syntactic sugar and just use function pointers directly. There's more hokum in diet than there is in Agile. Better to eat the carbs and run the marathon. #oldmanyellsatcloud

  19. Are people shifting to #Linux left and right these days, or am I just too much in the #opensource #echochamber that "switch to Linux" and #endof10 posts are the only things I actually see? It could be that everyone actually loves #windows11 and #AI and #spyware and I'm just an #oldmanyellsatcloud with a head full of #FOSS #copium .... hashtag #yearofthelinuxdesktop